Adam Mortara – Texas on the Potomachttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac
Washington news with a Texas accentMon, 16 Nov 2015 20:28:37 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.151023179Texas taxpayers get big tab for state’s redistricting lawyershttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/04/texas-taxpayers-get-big-tab-for-states-redistricting-lawyers/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/04/texas-taxpayers-get-big-tab-for-states-redistricting-lawyers/#respondWed, 11 Apr 2012 15:57:31 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=34272As Attorney General Greg Abbott fights for the GOP-championed redistricting plan, Texas taxpayers are spending big money on outside lawyers to help the state's case.
So far, the tally for outside counsel in the redistricting battle is more than three-quarters of a million dollars, according to records released to the San Antonio Express-News under the Public Information Act. ]]>http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/04/texas-taxpayers-get-big-tab-for-states-redistricting-lawyers/feed/034272Federal Judge Rosemary Collyer leaving her mark on Texas with redistricting, Voter ID and gun caseshttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/02/federal-judge-rosemary-collyer-leaving-her-mark-on-texas-with-redistricting-voter-id-and-gun-cases/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/02/federal-judge-rosemary-collyer-leaving-her-mark-on-texas-with-redistricting-voter-id-and-gun-cases/#respondMon, 13 Feb 2012 14:49:04 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=29100Collyer is one of three Washington D.C. judges overseeing the Texas redistricting case in federal court, and she issued a ruling last month that requires border states’ gun shops to report multiple sales. Soon, she will have the Texas voter ID case in her court.]]>http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/02/federal-judge-rosemary-collyer-leaving-her-mark-on-texas-with-redistricting-voter-id-and-gun-cases/feed/029100Texas officials testify that redistricting process was ‘bipartisan’http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/01/texas-officials-testify-that-redistricting-process-was-bipartisan/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/01/texas-officials-testify-that-redistricting-process-was-bipartisan/#respondWed, 18 Jan 2012 22:13:36 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=27171Lawyers for Texas defended the state's redistricting plans Tuesday as open, bipartisan and compliant with constitutional requirements despite legal challenges that the new political lines discriminated against minority voters.
“The process was fair and it was open,” attorney Adam Mortara told a panel of three federal judges, which began hearing two weeks of testimony in the Texas redistricting case.]]>http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/01/texas-officials-testify-that-redistricting-process-was-bipartisan/feed/027171